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From being a junior developer all the way to Development Manager position, I was always interested in new technologies. Passionate speaker, IT junky, developer, architect, team lead, and development manager - many hats, one goal - making software better and closer to people’s needs. For the most part I am using my blog as a scratch pad, writing small articles on things which I came across, was asked about more then once, and which would otherwise require additional research again and again.
Category Archives: Fun stuff with SQL Server
SQL Server Collation. An enemy or a friend?
Is SQL Server Collation setting your enemy or your friend? How to change server default collation? In general, it is your friend, it will help SQL Server to figure out how to store character strings in different locale. It becomes … Continue reading
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Load text file data into SQL Server table
Last time we have seen how to manipulate text files from SQL Server code using Scripting object. This time we would look at “Read File As Table” operation from a different angle – using BULK INSERT operation. There are pros and … Continue reading
File management from inside SQL code
Writing a log, dumping data, looking for file to be used in Bulk insert… There are many situations when you would want to have access to files from inside your SQL code on Microsoft SQL Server. Did you know that you … Continue reading
SQL date operations: First day, Last day of the month…
Did you ever faced a situation when you need quickly calculate some boundaries of the Date value like First Day of the month, Last Day of the month, etc… in T-SQL? Colegue of mine asked me this question… WOW! What do … Continue reading